was yellow wendys really that much better or is - /ck/

Anonymous01/24/26, 23:06No.21850354

Was Yellow Wendy's really that much better or is this another instance of zoomer nostalgia-fagging?

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Anon01/24/26, 23:23No.21850389

Don't know dude. I never had that shit before

Anon01/24/26, 23:26No.21850398

>zoomer They weren't around for Yellow Wendy.

Anon01/24/26, 23:27No.21850400

Zoomers never experienced yellow Wendies, and if they did they were too young to remember it. Anyway OP is a fag and I will daydream about them being thrown in a giant blender and killed beyond recognition.

Anon01/24/26, 23:35No.21850416

I am comparing their nuggets and fries since that is what I had when it was Yellow Wendy's, but now it feels like it is similar seasoning but they put in some weird chemical filler into the breading, because it always has this chemical taste to it that it did not have even a decade ago. Have no idea if this is just changing tastes and they were always like that or if they added something the last several years Fries have always been unremarkable from them, depends how you get them

Anon01/24/26, 23:37No.21850419

the fries were better than anything you can even imagine zoomnig.

Anon01/24/26, 23:42No.21850426

They had the worst fries of the Big Three by far. The burgers were the least fast food tasting of The Big Three in a good way if you know what I mean. Didn't eat nuggies then or now and I hated the Frosty and much preferred McDonald's shakes.

Anon01/24/26, 23:43No.21850427

Wendy's chili tasted better in a yellow paper bowl

Anon01/24/26, 23:45No.21850431

Haven't eaten Wendy's in maybe 20 years, but the last time they had this yellow branding in the OP and I had a bacon mushroom melt. Was great.

Anon01/25/26, 00:26No.21850469

Fast food in general was better back then, so yeah it was.

Anon01/25/26, 00:56No.21850497

Nah, the early 2010's revamp Wendy's went through was the best era. Yellow era's fries were soggy as shit but everything else was fine. They're fucking garbage now.

Anon01/25/26, 00:57No.21850498

It was goated. All went downhill with that sea salt non sense

Anon01/25/26, 01:14No.21850522

it was ok. their peak was when the hand cut sea salt fries first dropped but they immediately pulled the rug. rip Dave he’s rolling in his grave

Anon01/25/26, 02:12No.21850572

They used to have these Asian zing nuggies where you toss the whole thing in a clamshell. That and a chocolate frosty was the go-to gma lunch after our soccer game. Better times

Anon01/25/26, 02:32No.21850591

>yellow=pee Yes it was better

Anon01/25/26, 02:58No.21850620

I never had a Wendy's burger from that era that didn't have at least one piece of cartilage in it.

Anon01/25/26, 03:05No.21850626

Going to the local amusement park and stopping at the yellow Wendy's next door for a bacon cheddar burger and biggie fries is a core memory

Anon01/25/26, 03:50No.21850666

The restaurant and its products used to be better and during that time their packaging happened to be yellow. This was during a time when all fast food was better value for your money compared to now, not just Wendy's. Any promotion they do with the yellow packaging is nostalgia pandering.

Anon01/25/26, 04:37No.21850719

The yellow has nothing to do with it.They changed their fries in 2010, turning them into soggy shit with disgusting skins left on. They changed their patties in 2012, shrinking them by about 30%. They introduced then removed apple smoked bacon in 2014. They changed their baked potatoes in 2015, reducing the size by about 40% and toppings by half. They changed their lettuce in 2025 going to from whole green to shredduce. They changed their buns sometime in this timeframe, from the white sprinkled keiser-type ones (pic related) to plain ones.What's left is a shit version of what it was 15 years ago. The yellow was LONG gone by then, gone in the 90s.At least their nuggies are still good, but they doubled the price of those in 2024.

Anon01/25/26, 04:40No.21850722

Their fries were always hit or miss in the Yellow era. Sometimes they were crispy with a soft interior but most of the time they were limp and soggy. When they were made right they were good. Unfortunately that didn't seem to be the norm.

Anon01/25/26, 16:23No.21851306

>if we give them too much food for that money they'll get fat!! >better rip them off instead.... I wonder (((who))) could have been behind this dastardly scheme

Anon01/25/26, 16:27No.21851311

yellow wendy's was the best wendy's

Anon01/25/26, 16:49No.21851355

Stores of the Yellow Wendy's era were comfier, but the food was about the same.I'll tell you kids what peak Wendy's was though. Did you know they used to have a Salad Bar? (Pizza Hut too) Loading up an awesome salad with all your favorite toppings before your square cheeseburger was magic.

Anon01/25/26, 17:00No.21851377

>no blue lines on the inside of the fry box this isn't real yellow wendy's.

Anon01/25/26, 17:01No.21851379

Only good thing at Wendys now for price + quality

Anon01/25/26, 17:03No.21851382

I miss the little cups of oranges they'd sell

Anon01/25/26, 17:26No.21851418

wendys went from being the best to the absolute worst i dont bother with it anymore since they ruined the spicy chicken a few weeks ago it was the only place open when i showed uo late to a hotel and desperatwly wanted a salad after all the grocery stores were closed and it was supposedly open but no one even answered at the drive thru i even cir led around a coupke times totally weird and creepy but on brand for shitty wendys

Anon01/25/26, 17:42No.21851446

>2026 >still the only fast food place where you can substitute fries with a baked potato, chili or salad without getting upcharged Man I miss taking left over chili potatoes home after working night shift there.

Anon01/25/26, 17:43No.21851447

The chicken sandwiches used to be amazing. They were thick, whole breast fillets, super juicy and flavorful... similar to Chick fil E but at least twice as good, if not three times as good. The spicy chicken sandwich was particularly divine. Now they're thin, dry, pounded out patties and the meat doesn't rip in shreds like it used to and feels more like a big chicken nugget. The taste is horrible now. The burgers are mid, they used to be huge and scrumptious but now they're just slightly better than Burger King. Anybody remember the big Wendy's chocolate chip cookies? They were fucking baller, closest to the taste I've found is Safeway bakery cookies.

Anon01/25/26, 18:22No.21851494

Who gives a fuck. Are you gonna invent a time machine so you can go back?

Anon01/26/26, 03:36No.21852238

Yes. Literally everything was better lol.

Anon01/27/26, 03:23No.21853867

Wendeez nuts hit your chin

Anon01/27/26, 03:34No.21853883

Wendy's DIED in 2013. Sorry to say, but the swapping of corporate parent companies and the way the produced and sourced their products will probably never go back to what it once was. Just a fact.

Anon01/27/26, 07:27No.21854120

Wendy's definitely has gone downhill over the last 20 years, just like pretty much every other restaurant chain. The real low point was during the 2009 economic crash when they went bankrupt and got bought out by Arby's; the food was basically inedible for a while there.Currently the burgers are back to an acceptable level and the chili is ok, but holy fuck do those chicken nuggets suck ass. Also their chicken sandwich is dry and flavorless, and their fish sandwich is pretty poor.I go every few weeks to get a Double Baconator.

Anon01/27/26, 11:31No.21854257

anon, you know damn well quality of all food has gone down hill

Anon01/27/26, 18:09No.21854635

Those were the days, huh?

Anon01/27/26, 20:28No.21854848

Wendys got better in the last 20 years. Not too many years ago they redid their fries to keep some of the skin which is a good thing and guarantees them to this day to be hot and crispy guaranteed no questions asked and invested in lamp units to keep them warm. They also renamed and redesigned the single, double and triple to become Dave's single , double, triple. The previous preteen Hot 'N Juicy line became thicker and they started to use bakery fresh buns which are always much softer than their previous counterparts.

Anon01/28/26, 04:22No.21855481

Even if the food wasn't technically better (it was the jr bacon cheeseburger has shrunk by at least a third and the bacon is much much worse now) it used to be made by people that looked like you and had a shared cultural connection so they had a much bigger incentive to make it right. Nowadays even the people working together have no incentive to care about their fellow employees and not even the employee meals are made with even a hint of love.

Anon01/28/26, 04:26No.21855486

The new tendies are good, as is the baconator. That’s about it also why did they get rid of her in ads?

Anon01/28/26, 04:41No.21855496

Burgers were tastier back then, definitely beefier than McDonalds or Burger King. Junior Bacon Cheeseburger was always a good deal. The fries weren't that crispy but they had a good potato flavor. Sort of like In-N-Out.